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You received and Ecard!!!
13 January 09 12:43 PM
I am hoping most people have not been affected by these email spreading around. There is a proliferation of SPAM emails going around suggesting that you have received an Ecard from someone… DONT CLICK ON THE LINK . The downside of a connected social experience
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Microsoft to offer free consumer security suite | Security - CNET News
20 November 08 04:26 PM
I'm really excited about this announcement. This is a great step forward in making protection of your PC available for all. In the second half of 2009 we will be releasing code-name Morro that will protect customers from trojans, viruses, spyware, rootkits
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Jeff Jones Security Blog : Download: H1 2008 Desktop OS Vendor Report - Vulnerabilities and Days-of-Risk
27 October 08 11:21 PM
Jeff Jones has released his six monthly report on desktop OS security vulnerabilities and Days-Of-Risk. One highlight was the pie chart on security vulnerabilities in the different OSes. This certainly is in contrast to what a lot people are saying
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Presenting the security of Windows Server 2008
20 June 08 03:47 PM
On Thursday night I had the privilege of presenting to the OWASP.org user group. Those who are unaware of this group, they are a passionate group of security experts in Singapore. We had a 30-strong attendance from the group packed in to our Microsoft
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Server Core "Theoretically" reduces the number of Security Bulletins
17 June 08 04:34 PM
Just after publishing our video on Server Core, I visited Jeff Jones Security Blog , and found this post http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2008/06/12/download-server-core-potential-security-benefit.aspx on how having a server OS being installed
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Making Security Better for the IT Pro
05 June 08 04:29 PM
I literally just stepped out of keynoting the latest Technet Security Event for Microsoft Singapore. The question I posed to the attendees at the event, "What things can Microsoft be doing better for IT Professionals in Singapore with regards to
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Learning to Love UAC...
28 May 08 11:45 AM
I know a lot of people get annoyed by the UAC feature in Windows Vista, but here is a reason to inspire new love for this protective prompt. " Love or hate its nagging prompts, Vista 's Account Control feature (UAC) has a security feature that marks
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Microsoft Malware Protection Center - Security Intelligence Report
07 May 08 11:38 AM
Microsoft recently released its Security Intelligence Report Version 4 on April 22 at the Infosecurity Europe event in London. This is no light reading folks, its a big report about 104 pages long, but there are some really interesting facts inside...
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Report: Microsoft fastest to issue OS patches, Sun slowest
13 April 08 03:22 AM
Symantec have just released their malware report on security threats in the industry and it is great to see that results are in showing that Microsoft is the fastest in the industry to issue operating system patches to help protect customers from vulnerabilities.
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Jeff Jones Security Blog : Download: Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report
24 January 08 01:53 PM
Hey everyone, Wanted to point you to a report produced by a colleague of mine about Vista vulnerabilities one year after release. It is an in-depth report that compares Windows Vista against Windows XP, Linux and other OS'es. Good news is that our investments
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Social Engineering
21 January 08 11:16 AM
Social engineering is a very real problem in today's enterprise world. To get an understanding of what Social Engineering is, check out the following video. As they say the chain is only as strongest as the weakest link, so we can all do our part to ensure
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Top 5 security-menace predictions for 2008 - Network World
19 November 07 06:34 PM
Interesting article from Network World on the Top 5 security menace predictions of for 2008. In order Bot Evolution Web Threats (Aimed not only at unsuspecting visitors to social networking sites, such as MySpace, but any type of site or corporate web
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Sneak Peak - How to use Windows Server 2008 Core for PHP, MySQL
19 November 07 03:16 PM
I challenged Dennis Chung (my counterpart in the security bytes video, and one of the smartest guys I know when it comes to IT) recently to see what kind of usage scenarios we could use Windows Server 2008 Core . For those of you who are unaware of what
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Security Bytes 02 - Automated Patch Management... FREE!!!
13 November 07 04:21 PM
Technorati Tags: Security , Security Bytes As our IT environments continually grow in size both on the client and server side, patch management becomes a more complex task. While at Microsoft we try to ensure that we release patches on a predictable schedule
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Security Bytes 01 in Silverlight
26 October 07 02:28 PM
Technorati Tags: Security , Security Bytes One of the pieces of advice I got from some people that had seen the video was to try out using Silverlight streaming. So after installing Expression Encoder I encoded the file, uploaded to the streaming service
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